Under Boris Johnson, the Conservatives cut 26 fire engines and 1,172 firefighters from London Fire Brigade. They closed fire stations, including Belsize and Clerkenwell. Attendance times in Camden were the worst affected in London. The Brigade took 13 minutes to answer a fatal fire call last October. In March, a house neighbouring closed Belsize was almost destroyed by fire. They’ve […]
Read more28% of police officers in Barnet and Camden’s borough police forces now have less than two years in the job, new analysis from Labour London Assembly Member Andrew Dismore AM has revealed. The number of officers with less than two years’ experience in Barnet and Camden has risen from 104 to 349 in the last three years. The increasing […]
Read moreMy report from City Hall No.33: 30th January 2016 to 17th March 2016 1 Introduction This will be my last update from City Hall before the elections on 5th May, when my term of office expires. It has been a pleasure and privelege to serve you on the London Assembly for the last 4 years. I am standing for re-election, […]
Read moreAt his ‘roadshow’ in Barnet last month, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe confirmed what we all knew: that crime is officially rising in Barnet, year on year: see his PowerPoint slide: See also my letter about this, with detailed numbers. This may be to do with the continuing fall in police numbers, where locally and London wide the […]
Read moreMore questions about crowfunded police in Hampstead from Andrew Dismore on Vimeo.
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